There is very little time or point in an explanation. To be
blunt, the audio came from a timeline and dimension that has collapsed at
a quantum level, rendering it null and void in terms of existence.
Operational time in the dimensional continuum where the beings that created the audio
collapsed in on itself, rendering all of their civilization, including technology,
null and void. Timelines across the entire continuum are collapsing
and changing. The destruction has a nexus that centers on cinema
syll. 10 years.
Man 10. 10 years.
10 years. Man 10 years. 10 years.
10. 10 years. 10 years.
What is the most likely way humanity. Will be wiped out? Maybe it's something.
Or us. Although the way the world ends might. Be because of you.
And if this is the case, you wouldn't have any control over it. The global
temperature rise underscores a chilling reality. Our planet is
trying to tell us something, but we don't seem to be listening. A recent study
has suggested that one. Third of annual deaths due to heat are directly
related to global warming.
On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light,
which is 180 million degrees, which catches every everything on fire
in a nine mile diameter radius. On top of the bulldozing effect of the
wind and all the buildings coming down, and more fires igniting more fires
on top of the radiation if they happen to have survived poisoning people to death.
On top of all that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire
that is a hundred or more square miles.
Timelines across the entire continuum are collapsing and changing.
The destruction has a nexus that centers on Cinema PsyOps.
A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place.
Biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed.
Giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology.
Solving the deadliest diseases while also creating.
Viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate
humanity. It's man returning to the most primal,
violent state as people fight over the tiny
resources that remain. What if the world we live in is just a
dream or a simulation? Whether it's a dream or some advanced computer
game you are playing right now, when it ends, you would be what causes the
end of the world. Please do us all a favor. Continue dreaming or playing
this game of life. Because when you wake up or unplug, there's a chance the
rest of us. Will be blaked out of existence. Timelines across the
entire continuum are collapsing and changing. The destruction has a
nexus that centers on Cinema syn.
10 years. 10 years alone
and welcome to the 512th consecutive week of
Cinema Psyops. This episode represents not only 512
consecutive releases of this show. It also represents
eight more to go before we are done with doing that shit. And just as
stoked as I am to be able to hear those words being spoken by me
is my co host, Matt. I love eating short ribs, man.
Spare beef ribs. God, they're so good. I am also a fan of
beef ribs. There's a particular barbecue place that's actually very
close to my. I'll tell you the name off air. But, you know, unless they're
going to pay me in, like, free ribs for a plug, I'm not plugging them
on the show. Because if you're in Omaha, you should already know the place exists.
That's all I'm saying. I would. I would totally do a plug for free
ribs. I would do a lot more than just a plug for free ribs.
And some of that stuff may be illegal in some states. I'll do some
absolutely criminal shit for a Klondike bar and some free ribs.
But the Klondike bar comes after the ribs.
How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat? Yeah, if you
can't eat your meat, you can't have your pudding. That's just how it's gonna go.
Yeah. That's how life is. All right, so we're finally finishing up
the Rebirth of Mothra series with my film rebirth of Mothra 3, released in
1998, also the year that I graduated from high school.
Hey. Yeah. So when these were on Sci Fi, I know
I was still at home with my parents, I think, so I think I may
have actually seen these, like, during my cut day at school.
Oh, wow. Yeah. For my senior year maybe or something. But I remember catching
them on something like Sci Fi. But my parents had digital cable at the.
So who knows? It might have even been Showtime that these were on. Who fucking
knows? You know what I'm saying? But I had gotten mad. However it gotta work.
Yeah. And I do remember watching all three of them. I remember laughing my fucking
ass off at the creature that peed all over the kid's leg and why wouldn't
you in the last movie? And like, he got healed and I just thought that
was the funniest shit ever that they decided to have magical pee. I just shook
my head and laughed and I enjoyed all the monster fights that were in your
film. Yep. Then we got to my film in this marathon that was being
played that I remember catching on cable somewhere. And Jesus fucking Christ,
Ghidorah is absolutely terrifying. But what a weird hybrid of
plots and ideas that this film is. It. It doesn't make a whole lot of
sense and I'm going to do my best to try and explain it for everybody.
No, it's like they had three different stories they wanted to tell and they
tried. Yeah. This is. It's a massive attempt at an epic
that is 103 million years in the making. More or less.
Yeah. Like, I mean, they want some time travel. They want some kids trapped in
an evil dome. They want multiple versions of Gedra that can
exist simultaneously. We have time travel fuck ups,
we have causality, failures, all sorts of weird shit.
I'm happy this was your movie. Yeah. Considering my love
of that kind of alternate realities and multiple realities and
how time travel doesn't quite work the way everybody thinks it's gonna work. I'm glad
that I did choose this. And I will freely admit I pulled
a selfish because I realized Ghidra was in this and said I want this one
for me. And I was happy because I got furry who
could pee on people. Yeah. Just so bizarre. So bizarre these
last two films. But I'm gonna. Like I said, I'm gonna do my best to
try and explain it, but if the film doesn't explain it and I couldn't put
it in one of the many clips, and when I say many, I mean 24.
Some of them are almost five seconds. Like I just literally clipped
all of the dialogue. Cause I'm like, fuck it. I'm not trying to recreate this
or explain it. Right. So there we go. Jesus Christ, man.
We're gonna be here forever. No, we won't be here forever because I'm
not playing the longest ones for you. And I'm going to do.
What will end up happening is the full episode will be released. Everybody that
listens to the episode will have the full of the clips and they will be
here forever. Nerds.
But they are choosing to listen to us,
Matt. There is a difference. They choose to listen to us because they find us
entertaining. Why do they choose stalkers?
Yeah, I don't want to think about it too. Or taste. Because, yeah. I mean,
if you like us, you have to. I mean, but anyway.
Jesus Christ. Yeah, I don't want to think about any of that. Go outside,
touch the fucking grass. All right, enough assaulting the audience.
We don't have that many left as is. Thank you. All right, sorry, My bad.
Sorry, everyone. Let's take the break here. Let's try and bring
everyone back from Matt's manic episode he just had in insulting you all.
We're gonna play The Legion Patreon. Adam, we're gonna play the Legion Patreon
ad. And immediately following that on the pirate radio edit like we've been doing all
along. Songs released or in the top 100 for 1998.
And up first will be Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with the song you and Me
and the Bottle Makes three tonight. Immediately following that. Yeah, this'll keep
it. Hi there. I didn't see ya.
Testing the paradox sustaining devices that are essential to the function
of the Mobius loop of annihilation has proven difficult in the labs of Seven
Quartz all in one Edison manufacturing business that is in no way a center
for outlandish claims that are almost always shown to be false with time.
Seriously, why would you even think that? Their stock price is inflated by
lies and propped up by shady investors using it to pump and dump money through
market manipulation. That is just not how they harvest money from foolish investors.
And I will thank you once again for not believing this would be the case.
As I was saying before you so rudely brought up the fact that the only
thing Zevon is allegedly capable of creating is chaos and stock manipulation
ploys. Testing the paradox sustaining devices that are essential to the
function of the Mobius Loop of annihilation has proven difficult. In the labs,
the Collective were able to verify this through the audio taken from video surveillance footage
that somehow miraculously survived the media it was stored on, being mostly destroyed.
It's miraculous in that we got exactly the format we needed for it to reach
your ears of this pivotal event as it happened in just the right moment for
us to capture it and further the plot of this story. It is almost as
though this is all being written badly by an author with no writing skills and
a poor imagination. The Collective agreed that we would no longer allow
personal religious apocryphal beliefs to enter the discussion and stick to the
observable facts in this matter. The very existence of the experience of suffering,
the endurance of pain, the complete and the total death toll of injustice in
the multiverse is a major point of contention and creates a catch all to
offer some comfort in the form of an explanation that not verifiable and therefore
improbable. If the author is somehow all powerful and benevolent, why would they
allow such evil and torment to exist? If we are to not interfere and not
push personal beliefs and ideology, why are you here pushing your own random events
beliefs into the transmissions? This isn't even your assigned dimensional
loop to communicate with, Boris. I am effective. As of the start of this shift,
the main processing quality Assurance and redundancy Elimination,
Supervisor of these transmissions. And I am telling you to stop trying
to teach the Great Authorship during the remedy Medial educational clips explaining what
is happening as their timeline collapses.
Ah, the late 90s, whenever the big Band swing
revival hit. And there were so many fucking songs that sounded like they were
released in 1939. And it was nice, dude.
God, what a time to be alive. It was like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
The Cherry Popping Daddies had the one song that was like a big hit for
them. And then there was what other? There was another big band.
Well, I guess technically the Squirrel Nut Zippers could kind of fit in there.
As well, because they were mighty, mighty Boss tones. Nah, they were more scar.
They just had that like, you know, the big band thing with that. But they
did more scar than actually. Being like big bands, I suppose. I mean, you know,
they. They can. At least they can waffle.
Yeah, but it was there. It existed. It was a thing that you have to
recognize was. You know, it's a thing. We all did it that one time.
Everyone got dressy. That's it. We can move on.
Yeah. I mean, I may or may not have or have not purchased the single
of that Cherry Poppin Daddy song that I can't even think of the name of
now. I think the Big Band swing even got me back then, and I'm not
ashamed to admit it. So that's not. It was some. The Cherry Poppin, was it
like a devil song too? Something like that? I don't know. Yeah. Hell by the
Squirrel Nut Zippers. Hell yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. All right, enough talking about
the Big Band swing revival of the 90s. Let's get into the death of Mothra
in the 90s with Rebirth of Mothra 3, 1998.
All right, I've cracked open my first beer. Let's talk about this shit.
Let's time travel, motherfuckers. All right, so the first third opens with
dialogue. It's only a few seconds, but fuck it, that's our first clip.
As long as you live, you shall have hope.
Personally, I find that rather presumptuous. Lady I know,
right? Who the fuck do you think you know here? Yeah, Because I have no
hope right now. I have zero. No, I ain't got nothing like that.
Fuck off, you fucking hope. All right, so after the clip, the title card pops
up to tell us the name of the film. During the opening credits, we fly
over Infant island, set to the sound of a Casio keyboard of this era with
just the demo button pressed Yeah, I. Mean, it's just the demo. Don't.
Don't anybody have to worry about nothing. It's just a demo. Things are falling from
the ceiling. And we hear the sounds of things being tossed about above and
in the air. A stone tablet then falls to the ground. So do a bunch
of pots that then explode all over the floor. And then a few other things
that are similar to that. They all break once, hitting the floor. Before we see
a super fancy looking lockbox hit the floor with a dull thud. There is
a key sized person dragging a key towards the box trying to
open the box. With that said key we can assume it is
this movie's Rita Repulsa or this version of it that we had seen in all
the other films. We then see that it is actually her. Once she hops inside
of the open box and reads off some stuff to create some more dialogue.
That became our second clip. Wisdom.
Courage. Love.
Elvira. What are you doing?
Mal.
Garagaru. Mal. Lara.
I'm sure you must have heard about it. The Elias Triangle.
The Elias Triangle holds the secret power that protects us
from disaster. No one knows what it is or even where it's
located. You never wanted to know. We never
needed to know. Not until now.
Look what I've got in my hand.
I'm taking them.
Barry. Keep them. You'll need them.
The King of Terror.
Wisdom. What does the other one say? It looks like Courage.
Courage. Courage and wisdom.
Laura, give me the other one.
This one doesn't fit. I'm sure it fits Belvira's sword though.
So the one that she took. That was for your sword.
What is it? I'm worried about what she said. Wasn't it the King of Terror?
I think she meant the King of Terror is coming. So. Interesting coincidence.
In the Japanese version with the subtitles they
refer to him as the Beelzebub of the stars or something like that. Like they
even play it up even more severe. And whatever this creature is, is going to
be super evil. We already know it's Ghidra. But even still. Yeah, it's Ghidra.
It's a three headed fucking dragon. We're well aware. Go ahead.
God damn, ladies. You don't have to play hard to get with fucking
Ghidra. They always do that where they don't want to admit it's Ghidra even though
it's Ghidra. Yeah, we all know it's fucking Ghid. They cut from
that to a bad CGI rendering of a meteor hurtling towards a bad cgi.
Rendering of the earth. And I feel really sad wondering what a model version
would have looked like instead. Yeah, the model version would have been a lot
better. This was not good. The meteor explodes into the atmosphere
and they cut to Fujiyashida City in Yamamashi.
Yaman, Yamanashi. We know this because it is put up on a title card.
And I'm trying to pronounce it based solely on that. Good job.
You know what? You tried. You gave it. You gave it the
old, you know, college try. Good job. Cork. We follow with
a dude driving a box truck and having a snack While he's doing it.
He notices the meteor shower and resulting light show as he is driving
and starts staring at it while still being mobile,
which is a bad idea. Dude, Distracted driving is a thing.
Yeah. They cut from that to what I assume is this movie's kids.
And they annoy us all in the dub in our third clip.
Here you go. Thank you. What's the matter with
them? They look like they're afraid.
Of what? Shouta, come and try this.
Go on, taste it. Well, I think it
needs more spice, this one. Well, what do you think? You need some
lemon juice? The onion. I think you need to chop it a little finer.
Oh, okay. Hey,
it's dad. Welcome home.
Hey, kids. Hi dad. Here, these are
for you. Hey, come on.
I'm home. Hi. Welcome home, dear.
Here. Hi, dad. Hi. Wow, it's huge. Where did you
get it? It was a gift from old Tanaka. Oh, how nice. Hey,
come here. All right, let's see.
Are you strong today? Ooh, you're getting
stronger. Are you tired? No. Hey.
Off. Yeah. A drink? Ah, thank you. Thank you.
Perfect. Now try a little of
that. Sure. Wow. Did you make
this? Shota helped me. Shota? So how did you know that's what I wanted?
I used my imagination. Imagination?
Hey, guess what? The sky's full of shooting stars.
Really? Let's go and see. Wow.
Where did it land?
Yoki Forest. There's another. The film
follows the meteor that strikes down at Katsuyama city, Fuki, I think.
That's right. I don't know. We know this because it's on the title card that
pops up to tell us that. So you can see it written down, but I'm
not sure I'm pronouncing it right. Anyway, the meteor starts to glow a bunch of
different shades between red and purple and then starts glowing really like
an almost golden. Look all over it as everything around it starts to have this
almost anti gravity effect where it all lifts up off of the ground and away
from the glowing orb. It cuts from that to a helicopter flying around. And then
the annoying kids in our. It's heading to the forest.
Goodbye, my little friend. Don't forget your bag now.
Oh, sorry we're late,
Chota, here's your lunch. Oh, thank you.
No mustard in yours. Thanks. Chota, I hope someday you'll go back to
school. I think it's time, so have a good day, son. Bye, honey.
Huh? Is it because I've got a job? What do you mean? Is that why
he's not going to school? Of course not. Then what's wrong with him? I really
don't know. He's got his own ideas about things.
Mommy, I know why he doesn't go to school. Why's that, sweetie?
He's like this girl, Yuriko in my class. She cries when she eats her
school lunch. She cries. It's not fair. They make her eat all the food even
though she hates it. But, sweetheart, the school lunches, they're good for her
health. It's good for her to do something she doesn't want to. It's not fair
to force her. They can't make people do things they don't want to do.
Hey, the bus is here. Jota, listen to me.
Stay away from the Aoki forest today. Bye,
Daddy. Have nice a day, okay? Bye. Have a
good day. After the clip, they cut to the meteor crash site that
is now an apocalyptic wasteland. The pixie ladies fly in and do an expository
dialogue into our ear holes in our fifth clip. That's not really a meteorite.
Is it from space? It came from Earth.
It's some sort of fossil. Except it's alive.
Alive?
Dinosaurs. What? This had
something to do with the dinosaurs,
but they died millions of years ago.
130 million years. And thousands of them were
wiped out. So what is it doing on Earth now?
I think it's come back. What?
It killed off the dinosaurs and now it's returned.
It can only be one thing. The creature has returned from the past.
King Ghidorah. Get in over here.
Get in that spot. Come on. Get it. All right, come on.
Come on. Hey, Matt. I got it.
Pass it to me. I got a spot.
Yeah, Come on. Shoot. Come on, come on.
Yeah. Okay, so during the
clip, we actually see Ghidra's shadow fly over a bunch of kids.
And they quite literally disappear or disintegrate or whatever. The kid who refuses to go
to or whatever it is that happens. They just basically disappear whenever
the shadow passes Over. We see that at the school and everything like that.
Then they cut to the kid who refuses to go to school sneaking off
on his bike to the woods that he was strictly forbidden to go to.
And then dumps his bike. Never listen. And then he dumps his bike to
go snooping at the impact site. They cut from the kid to King Ghidra
flying around and followed by the Pixie twins who noticed something
in our sixth clip. King Ghidorah.
Why aren't there any children? Millions of years ago it
killed off the dinosaurs. But this time we must call Mothra.
I included a little bit of the music video for everybody. Yeah. I was gonna
say even did the music. Huh? Nice. Just a small part of it. I always
like the. At least the first line where they're like, I just. I like it.
I don't know why. I just do. And at the end of the clip,
that starts the obligatory music video sequence of the ladies voguing it up and sing
to Mothra to summon her or strengthen her or whatever it is that needs to
be done just so we can get some fucking Kaiju action on this fucking screen.
This is complete with dis. Let's get going, huh? This is complete with
disappointing CGI of Infinite island that is quickly cut from to show the absolutely gorgeous
Mothra flying around. Before it cuts to Ghidra flying around and destroying model
cities and looking evil as fuck as he does it. There is obvious early CG
compositing stuff being done. We mentioned it in the last episode and this is where
it is. Here they're doing it instead of model work for the destruction. And it
makes me sad. Even if it's mostly a that they're animating in. I just don't
like it. It just doesn't look right and it doesn't feel right. Yeah. Right.
This movie, it's got it. You can't
just have things be a model. All right? Why can't things just be a model?
Is what I mean. This movie represents the ending of an era. And it continues
to be less and less model work and suitimation and more and more CG stuff.
And it makes me sad. We're entering that phase and it's just sad. It's when
your childhood dies, motherfucker. It cuts from this monster action
to the kid who won't go to school snooping around a cave. And he comes
out to another entran the cavern to find the meteor thing has
become a bad CGI dome. And then we see within that bad CGI
dome All the kids who King Ghidra had snagged up, they are now magically
appearing within this cage thing that is this dome. Then a bully ass
kid snags some other kid's soccer ball and yeets it the fuck at
the bad CGI dome, which transforms the ball itself into some bad CGI that
disintegrates, freaking out all the kids who go running around inside of a dome Dome
that will hurt them if they reach the edges. So why are they running back
and forth? They should just all run to the middle and stay there. Well,
because they're kids, so they're stupid. That's fair. They cut back to the
kid who won't go to school still snooping around outside the bad
CGI death dome. They cut from that to show Ghidra flying overhead and approaching
the death room. And this suitimation and flying composite looks amazing.
They put some money into this one and it looks great. Yeah, it's good stuff.
He lands and surrounds the dome with his wings. And this sends the kids
running to hide behind anything and everything and screaming their little heads
off. They stay with the suit for Ghidra for a while. And I am here
for this stuff all day until they deny me it. And cut to the annoying
ass class cutting kid and his shenanigans. We cut from him to
the pixie ladies doing us some dialogue. And that is our seventh clip.
Oh, that's where it's keeping the children.
Mothra. Hurry. Look,
I'm glad they explained that that's where he's keeping the children. But we still don't
know why he's like disintegr children and placing them inside this weird death dome.
Yeah, right. They're not really explaining all that to us. Yeah, we don't
know why. We just know that this is happening. And then they're also surprised by
that. So yes, like I've said before in the past when it comes to Kaiju
movies and logic, essentially the thing happened, now you have to deal with it.
We don't know why. We just. It happened and here we are. Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, just be, you know,
ready for all this. And with that, at the end of the clip when they
say Mothra should hurry, Mothra flies in to save the day. Though her attacks seem
to have no effect on this King Ghidra. Ghidra takes off and Mothra pursues
him in a terrific flying sequence that is better than
any of the flying stuff we got with the small pixie ladies and
their dragging riding evil Rita repulsive Sister. That stuff was composited badly and
did not look good. And some of it was CG that looked really bad.
Just wanted to. Yeah, it was just not great. They had little mini
models that were flying models of both Mothra and this version of King Ghidra.
And that shit was great. And they did good work with that. It was really
well done. Well, during the battle, Mothra is hitting Ghidra with
tons of laser and lightning attacks. Then a dive bomb spinning
lightning attack looks particularly cool too. But looking cool doesn't cut it when
it comes to defeating this King Ghidra, as none of these attacks I just described
seems to be actually working on him or doing anything to him. That's a little
scary. Yeah. No. King Ghidra seems to be impervious to
the pain. Ghidra responds with his fire breath attack that hits and
clearly damages Mothra very quickly. Then he hits her with a barrage of
these before hitting her with lightning from his wings and then dropping down onto
her with a double leg stomp drop that smashes Mothra to
the ground, causing the Pixie ladies to scream out, mothra. And it also made
me pop with a massive work like that. I was like, oh, fuck,
yeah. No, that was good shit. One of the first things that popped
into my head was that old wrestling thing of that moth had a family.
As God is my witness, that moth is broken in half.
Insult and injury both is piled on to Mothra as we watch Ghidorah
basically. Basically fucking river dance all over her wings. It's horrific,
the stomping that he does. Yeah, it's bad. Leaving her pinned and
vulnerable to his attacks as he keeps doing this. This is so fucking brutal.
That moth had a family. That Moth did have a family. Those two
twins. And now they don't. I mean, we don't know what's going on. Just as
I typed that, two of the Ghidra heads bite down on Mothra at the wings
and start tossing her around everywhere as the middle head strikes at her. During all
of this, that was. The referee needs to stop the damn match. Yeah. This was
brutal. The Pixie ladies fire a mini laser from their mini
Mothra and then get some kind of weird red light
on them with a sound effect when they get too close to one of Ghidra's
eyes. Ghidra then tosses Mothra far into the air and all three heads
blast her with their fire breath or heat ray or whatever it's supposed to be,
which sends her careening into the Pixie ladies and fairy who Then spin
out of control and nearly smack into the Class Cutter. Kid Barry corrects its flight
pattern and then the sister in blue turns on the sister in orange as she
tries to strangle her. They fall off a ferry in the fight and it dives
to rescue them as Mothra crashes to the ground. And Ghidra goes
flying over populated areas to dish out some more destruction.
He goes off collecting more kids as the Class Cutter's little brother
and sister get swept up in the Ghidra transporter to the Death Dome with the
rest of the kids. While the school evacuates in a panic, they wake up inside
of the Death Dome and make some noises with their taki holes in our eighth
club. Oh.
Help us. Help, help us. Someone save us.
I think we'll stay clear of that.
At the end of the clip, a bunch of weird worm looking tentacle things that
are terrible CGI come out and attack them, dragging them into the
dome. That struggle takes long enough to get us past the first third of the
film. We are now one third of the film down, finally. Yeah. And so,
yeah, we're getting some King Ghidra action and completely just utterly destroying
Mothra. So I guess that's happening. Yeah. The wrestling
maneuvers in this where Ghidra was doing the attack, and then the one portion
where, like, he picks Mothra up and just tosses her into the air and
then all three heads blast fire at her to drag her across. That was all
really good stuff. That was very entertaining. I was really digging that
and having a blast. But it took us a little while to get here.
I mean, I split it up into thirds. So we're talking 33 to
34 minutes before we really get to the action. We have some of this Kaiju
battle stuff. And before that has been kind of a slog, a bit annoying.
And other than the mom is kind of hot and a bit of a milf,
I mean. Yeah, like real nice,
though. Real nice. Yeah, she is quite attractive and she wears pigtail
the entire time. And I'm just. I'm here for that fucking cliche all day,
I guess. Yeah, right. Thank you.
I do have to admit, they are better parents than
we've seen in the previous Godzilla films and some of the other Kaiju
films. They care about their kids. One of their kids is, you know, having some
trouble and doesn't want to go to school. At least the parents are together here.
I'm just saying. Yeah. And they're really kind of concerned about the kid. They don't
know what to do, but they Aren't trying to force him to go back to
school whenever he's got some problems. He's really good at being a
Little Chef and a bit of a cook, so they're encouraging that in him.
Trying to get him to kind of come out of his shell and get some
confidence and stuff. You know, the dad's kind of paying attention to each of the
kids and being, like, super kind to them at certain moments. And it just feels
completely fake and nothing like any real family, essentially. Yeah. No.
Yeah. If you grew up and experienced something that supportive and wonder your life,
then good for you. The rest of us did not have parents like this.
I mean, I had supportive parents.
Well, good for you. You had parents like this. I did not. But I still
turned out like a giant piece of shit. Well, that's more your fault than theirs
then, huh? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. No, this is all on me. All right, let's move
on to the next third of the film. What do you think? Yes. All right,
so the middle third starts with the Class Cutter spying on things with his little
mini binoculars. The warm tentacle things come out for the class cutter and
they are yelled at by the remaining pixie lady and riding on the
fairy cre creature in our ninth clip. Stay away from
him. You're a very lucky boy.
King Ghidorah tried to capture you. King Ghidorah? What are you doing here?
It's my sister. She's inside that dome. King Ghidorah is
holding thousands of children prisoner in there. Prisoner? What for?
Because. To kill them.
My name is Mal. This is Fairy. And you? Sonada.
And your first name? It's Shota. Shota.
What's wrong? It's my sister. She's there too.
They cut from this to a gorgeous shot of Gidras flying into a major city.
And then to a newscast playing at a panicked office with the MILF
mama. Both the Class cutter and the brats we followed when they went to the
school that they all got kidnapped from. All that is in our 10th clip.
This puzzling phenomenon seems to have left no city on the
island of Hanshu unaffected. Mr. Sonata,
what's happening? Happening? With over 3,000 children reported missing
the last day. Mr.
Akira, I'm Tamako and Shuhei's mother and I. Yes? I've heard
terrible things on the radio and the television. They're saying that. Where are they?
Sweetheart? It was on the radio. Children disappearing. What's going on
here? Tamako and Shuhei have disappeared too. That right? Hey, now, take it
easy. Your kids are not the only ones missing, you know. All our students have
gone. A total of 5002028 kids. And it's not only our
school either. It's an update on the missing children. The enormous dome that
suddenly appeared in the Aoki forest this morning appears to be connected to
the disappearance of the children. Police and helicopters flying over the translucent dome
reported that they saw hundreds of children inside and that all of them appear to
be alive.
Shouta knows how to get there. The wind came.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Run.
You see, Lara is a very kind and generous person. That's how King
Ghidorah was able to turn her against me. Nice people are always
taken advantage of. That's too bad. Somehow it knew
if Lara and I were separated, Mothra's power would be weakened and she'd be
vulnerable. It knows my sisters down there.
Have you come to this place before? It's the Wind Cave, an ancient lava
flow. It's the entrance to a library.
It's where I come when I want to be alone.
Where's the other one? What? You said sisters.
I did? Won't you Help you out? What is it? Don't you like
each other? In my experience, the eldest child always has
a much harder time than the younger one.
What's that smell?
That's Mothra. Right? Don't worry. Mothra can sense the
difference between good and evil.
Shouta. Yes? Go on. The end of the clip starts
a long sequence of the kid being awe inspired by the beauty of Mothra.
In silence with some dramatic music to sell the experience. And it's working for me,
I'll admit it. Yeah, it's nice. They cut back from that
to the MILF mom and the father arriving back at their home in the box
truck her husband drives looking for the class cutting kid of theirs
who promised to stay home and was a fucking liar. In our 11th clip,
Shona Chanta.
Choda. Shouta.
Choda Chowdha. Shouta.
Here. Huh? Look.
Hey, his bike's gone. I told him not to go
to the forest. Come on, hurry.
Lara. Laura. What on earth
are you doing in here? It's too dangerous. It's an evil place. I think this
is King Ghidorah's base. He has awful plans. He's gonna destroy the human race.
Laura.
I see. He's possessed you. Has he?
Laura. What happened to math?
That boy, he just ignores everything I.
Say to him these days. I told you you should have used the belt
on it more often. Over.
Right. You stay here. Don't move from this spot.
You understand?
Oh, no. Let's go. They cut from the end of the clip
to Ghidra flying into the city and destroying buildings with his flame
breath attack. That animates them into CGI explosions or bad compositing
shots of explosions. All of which are very disappointing because they weren't blowing up models.
I'm sad. Yeah, we're all sad. There is also. We had to grow up.
Can't be Peter Pan forever. There is also the prerequisite
fleeing and terrified citizens as all of this bad CGI explosion and
compositing is happening. They cut away from that to our 12th clip.
That's King Ghidorah. He's coming. What now? What can we do to stop him?
What's that? What's Mothra saying?
Arakura maraqui makura da.
Maul. Maul. What did she say? Say? She said
there's a way. There's only one way to stop King Ghidorah. That's great, but Mothra
can't do it. Can't do what? To travel so far back in time.
How far? 130 million years. The time when King Ghidorah
first came to Earth. Mar.
What'S happening? Will she go?
Back then, King Ghidorah was only a baby, right? Mothra could crush him.
Not for sure. Even back then, it slaughtered thousands of dinosaurs.
There was another. But King Ghidorah was powerful from the start.
Besides, Laura's gone.
Cantata Irabo Yara Karatakura
Kuraka.
I asked Mathra to wait for Lara to come back,
but she has refused. She knows she
won't be able to return from the past.
She won't come back. No, she won't.
But this fight has to be fought.
No matter how forbidding the task. It is my duty to
fight this terrible evil.
The scope of the mind is unlimited.
It can reach where arms can't. Through any barrier,
through concrete, through anything you can think
of. Even through time. And with that,
it appears Mothra is now traveling back through time. And the solo Pixie lady
sings yet another music video song solo to power up and encourage Mothra.
Or so I assume. I don't know. This takes up. Yeah, this takes
up a lot of screen time and really pads out the film.
But during the sequence, Mothra turns into Mega Mothra,
like we saw earlier in the version that was empowered by the water spirit and
Mega Matt's film. And that's what she turns into to travel through time as
well. This sequence ends with the Pixie Lady Falling off a fairy
at the start of our 13th clip. Mal.
What's the matter? Mal. She's there. That's good news. Now she'll
destroy King Ghidorah. I have a request. Laura is trapped inside the dome.
Mothra needs her power more than ever. Without it, she will lose the fight.
I need you. Me? I can't. Laura loves the innocence of
children. I think you. You can break the spell on her. But I can't even
go to school. I'm too afraid. No, you're not afraid. You're just very sensitive
to the way that people treat you. You can't stand anger or intimidation.
And that's a good thing. Go now. Take this with
you. It will give you courage. But I
shot to please. Thank you.
Mal. Mal.
Mold. Maul. With that,
the young pixie lady's clothing pixelates into a bunch of strange octagon
like shapes. And her skin turns blue as she freezes or some shit.
I don't know. It just. Just happened. She just becomes this inanimate fucking stone like
object. And the kid shouts her name a bunch like you heard there at the
end of the clip. The film then cuts from that to Mothra flying around in
the dinosaur times. That gives us some great fucking model work for the
terrain. And some really nice puppeted dinosaurs. Like a brontosaurus
and a T. Rex. Really digging this sequence as it's happening here.
There is a really nice sequence of a puppeted herd of triceratops
being hunted by a puppeted T Rex. That looks and feels terrific to see.
They cut from that to the pinned evil sister finding
one of the knife blade power up plugins that are there for her knife.
She is pinned by her mecha dragon and kicks it several times to
have it respond by blasting out some purple looking lightning. And then
it cuts to the parents in the cave system for our 14.
Be careful. Come on.
Take it. Got it.
Careful. Careful now.
Come on.
Just a minute. Okay, I'm getting ready. No matter
how difficult, this is my duty. Come on.
Why don't you take me as well? Coward.
Scared of me or something?
Laura. Tamako. Chuhei.
Juhei. Tamako.
The chamber suddenly starts filling up with some strange blue liquid that may
or may not dissolve things as it touches it. As we see it do some
damage to a backpack that fell in there. But then it just kind of stops
flowing. And it's just there to keep the kids away from the center. Whatever.
That's just what happened. The kids all scramble in fear.
And the film cuts away from this to dinosaur times as the T. Rex is
attacking a trifle Triceratops. This attack is interrupted by a younger Ghidorah
attacking the T Rex and picking it up in one of its mouths. It goes
for the Triceratops as well with the other mouth, but is blasted by an
off screen Mothra that we see approaching in the light of the moon to deal
out some damage to this thing. They have a death ray, animated laser and
lightning blast fight that goes on for a while before Mothra has the upper
hand. And then we see the modern looking Ghidra holding
children hostage in a cut. He is being affected by this
past battle. And then the the film cuts into the class cutting
kid who decides it is working and says so. And then it
cuts back to Mothra attacking the younger Ghidra with more fire
blasts in prehistoric times. Some more lightning and laser attacks being tossed
back and forth between the two of them. But they are actually still hurting each
other. This one is weak enough for this version of Ghidra to actually have Mothra
do some damage. At one point Ghidra gets tired of this shit and tail smacks
Mothra to the fucking ground and starts baking her alive with heat
ray blasts that actually have some parts of the Mothra sculpt catching
on fire and burning. Mothra gets back into the air and scrapes up the
middle Ghidra head with the claws at the ends of her little tiny
legs. A rare physically violent attack from Mothra. Usually she's doing some kind of
laser attack or tasering or trying to take care of things in as nonviolent a
way as possible. She went straight for blood for this one. Yes.
Time to die. She is blasted away from Ghidra with a heat
ray and the pair take off to do an in air battle sequence.
As Ghidra changes chases this Mothra. It cuts away from this to all of
the screaming brats in the future up against the ghidra in our 15th floor.
Laura.
Laura. Stay back. Don't come any closer.
Stay away.
Laura, Mothra needs your help.
Mole sent me here. You have to help her.
No, don't. Laura. If you kill a human
being, it will mean the end of everything.
Young man, take a look at Laura.
Laura. It was Mole's last request.
Or last.
Laura. Mole told me that
you love the innocence of children.
Now you have a chance to save many children.
So that's the answer.
Wrigley, give her star to me.
Courage, wisdom and love. These three forces combined
make a super powerful force.
Courage, wisdom and love. They don't work separately, but when the.
Three come together, they make the Elias Triangle. All right,
So I don't know why, but at some point in time, the Rita Repulsa
knockoff that all along has been wanting humanity to die does a complete face
turn here that isn't really explained. Just all of a sudden realizing the Elias
Triangle and what it is makes her want to be good and not destroy humans
all of a sudden. Yeah, I guess. Again,
I also don't know why for the face turn. But I mean.
All right, yeah, you do agree, right? It comes completely out of left field and
like out of nowhere. Yeah, out of nowhere. They don't even set it up.
Like even at the beginning of this film she kind of is like, well,
I want this thing to happen and destroy all humans and this down gonna help.
So, you know, or these, these, these three things are supposed to be a powerful
weapon that I don't want you to have or whatever. And then she has a
face turn when it's finally time to watch the humans get destroyed. I think it's
because she's locked in there with all those terrified children. And maybe she feels a
little guilty. Maybe, maybe there's a little guilt that
she does feel guilt on all the other movies as well. So. All right,
so after the clip, we finally cut to see the Mothra and young Ghidra in
an air fighting sequence. And it is where they obviously
spent some of this budget because it looks author at some
point blasts off a section of Ghidra's tail and we
see the future baby snatcher version falls to the ground and is in pain.
And then they cut to show us the severed bit of tail burying
itself in front of a very confused Triceratops and T. Rex,
who seem rather perplexed by this, but I don't know what that signifies or if
that means he's like taking seeds so that he can show up later or what
that even fucking means. But that's just what happened and that's what was on screen.
So there you go, listen, that's. That's how it's going to go right now.
All right. And that sequence of the perplexed puppets of the T. Rex and Triceratops
watching the gidger tails sort of bury itself into the earth like a tick takes
us over the 2/3 mark of the film. So we are now 2/3 down.
Jesus. Takes a little bit to get here and you're going to get lost
16 ways from Sunday, but here you are. Yeah,
I don't understand a lot of the Choices that they made in this film and
the story points. It feels like maybe this got cut up and it could have
used a little bit more of the overdub expository dialogue just kind
of telling us some stuff. But they just kind of have a character. They did
this in the last film with those evil guys who did an immediate face turn
whenever they thought they were gonna die. But this lady, I think this is the
first time that she's actually come face to face with the idea that there may
actually be innocent humans because she's dealing with children who are more or less innocent
and have no idea what it is that she has a gripe with what humans
are doing to the earth. And I think by realizing that there is a potential
to maybe correct the course of humanity,
she wants to give them a shot now you. And then she just talks about
differing opinions need to be changed because she can't
let all of humans be destroyed. But her opinion was that all humans should be
destroyed in every other film. And the pixie
ladies that ride on the Staten island fairy monster thing, they all
want to keep humans from dying. And that was a difference of opinion. So if
your difference of opinion was all humans need to die and all humans don't need
to die, then you change your difference of opinion and work with your sisters anyway.
So then you've changed your opinion because you don't want all humans to die.
Yeah. But still just a weird time for it to come out
again. And the way that they just kind of describe it where she's literally like,
we have a difference of opinion. But you've always been saying all along that humans
should die. So what is this difference of opinion that all of a sudden you
decided to give up? Because that doesn't make any again. It just happens. So don't
spend too much time thinking about it. Let's just move on, guys. It's a Kaiju
movie. Let's not put too much anything into the human characters.
Let's move to the run to the end. What do you think? Let's do it.
All right. So the run to the end begins with a cut to the now
very blue child prison Death dome thing of Ghid. And they cut
inside where the dragon rider is attacking the dome with her new triforce
sword that she just made. And she makes her robot dragon thing fire a blast
off as well. As she tells the class cutter kid to wake up her
sister and get her in on this fight, which she attempts to do by
telling us all Mothra is losing the film. Then Cuts to the prehistoric
battle and we see that Mothra is in fact losing here and she
is grabbed by the side heads and tossed to the ground as
all three heads. Heat ray blaster. Looks like Ghidra has not lost this move because
he used it later on to really good effect in the future when he's trying
to fight her here with it. She already knows what's coming, but he hits her
with the heat ray blast, forcing her to crash land on the ground with
her legs up and looking super prone and helpless. Right after
that happens, Mothra flops her way around until she is able to get into
the air and narrowly escape a devastating double leg stomp drop
from the sky as Ghidra smashes down into the earth, exactly where
Mothra was. I'm glad she figured out how to avoid that because I. I don't
think she would have survived this attack. No, Mothra would have been dead there.
Ghidra starts a terrifying dead ass run at the fleeing Mothra,
snapping at and ripping away pieces of her with
all three heads. I was definitely not prepared for how effective
that shot was of making Ghidra terrifying and ripping her apart. It was getting pretty
gruesome, right? It was like, Jesus Christ, we get it. King Ghidra,
you're the fucking bomb. After ripping several chunks of Mothra's wings
out, Ghidra blasts her to the ground with his heat breath and
then roast her some more with the flame breath, complete with the burning
bits of the suit or sculpt or whatever it is, which is super effective
and makes me forget all about that terrible CGI earlier on in the film.
I'm not even worried about it anymore. No, I mean, nothing to worry about anymore.
We're all right this way. He's worrying about it. This barrage of hellfire dropped
onto Mothra is damn near too much and must really be a work for
the kids this was made for. Yeah, they cut from
that horrific burning of Mothra, who is looking pretty
dead, to the kidnapped brats in the dome in our 16th.
Laura.
What'S happening? You need to support Mothra.
This starts our third music video as the pixie lady sings
and we see Mothra looking dead as fuck, but slowly coming back to life and
gaining some kind of strength to move. And then we get an upside down
shot of a volcano that Mothra flies off to, narrowly missing
being roasted once again by the Ghidra three headed fire. Mothra flies over
top of Ghidra and does the scales or whatever else sort
of glitter drop attack that she has Onto Ghidra. This causes blue
light animation over Ghidra with darking electrical charges and explosions.
As Mothra drops more of this stuff paralyzing Ghidra
and basically just kind of coating him in it. Mothra drops down and latches
on to the base of Ghidra's middle neck and back and picks him up
and flies him over to and then right the fuck into
the magma filled core of the volcano, causing a huge goddamn
explosion. In the present times, this causes the main Ghidra to slowly move towards
the dome looking like he is going to do something awful. And the middle head
drops as the dome fades away. And it looks like the kids are doomed
as the middle head drops towards them. But the Death Dome, the kidnapped kids and
Ghidra all disappear in a fade to white that represents the
timeline being reset by some kind of causality of the death of the young
Ghidra. They cut from that to the kids waking up under the
sun. And our 17th clip. She did it.
Hurry.
Kamako.
It's Jonah.
There you are. Shuhei.
Tamako. You're here. You're safe.
What happened to the monster? Mothra killed it.
Mothra. They cut from this to Mothra flying out of the volcano and
crashing to the earth. It appears she may be dying. And then it cuts to
the frozen pixie lady being found by her sister and the kids talking
to them about a bunch of shit. So that's our 18th clip. Mal. She sacrificed
herself. She sent Mothra to the past. That was actually a lot
longer. But I cut out all the stuff in between him actually talking.
All right, so they show the very dead looking Mothra as three
pixie lights hover over her. And we see some prehistoric looking Mothra
lava scooting on up to Mothra. The trio of larva coat.
Mothra in the silk stuff that is somewhat large, lit up by a magical
light of some sort or some shit, I guess. And that takes up a lot
of screen time and is played as a dramatic and important thing that we should
really, really be paying attention to before immediately cutting away from that to
the brats in The Forest and our 19 Club. Strange, isn't it?
If King Ghidorah did die, then wouldn't history have changed?
The doll is gone. But if things really had changed,
we wouldn't be here at all now, would we?
It's not dead. It survived. Where's Mothra?
What happened to Mothra? She's gone.
Mothra's gone forever though.
Here, take him. Come on. It's okay.
At the end of the clip, Ghidra starts to snag more kids with his evil
powers, even though the main character's parents, including that milf,
desperately tried to get these kids to safety, even though it wasn't even their own
kids. Again, good people. And they are devastated whenever they can't
get this done. Yeah, they're pretty good parents here.
Yeah, they are both devastated whenever they can't save the kids. And the film cuts
from that to the pixies and our 20th clip Faerie
Belvira. Laura, it looks to me like we're going to have to fight by ourselves.
Right now, the Elias triangle represents just you and I.
Just you and I. Maul was the wisdom, you are the love and I am
the courage. It doesn't matter that we had different opinions. We're unified now.
Belvira, let's go. It doesn't matter that I believe that all humans should be killed.
I don't believe that now. So now we're going to fight together. That's right.
Let's go. They're really watching over the fact that that. That was her opinion.
For fuck sakes. With that, the sisters take flight and
start a completely odd fight where they mini blast Ghidra and annoy
him enough to get him to attack them. And then they somehow have the power
to overcome this attack and be blocked with this new magical triforce sword.
Anyway, that leads to our 21st clone, Laura.
Sometimes kindness isn't enough. Sometimes we need
to destroy our enemies. Only then can can love grow. If we can
demolish the force of hate, then love can be reborn.
So her opinion hasn't changed. Her solution is still, it bothers me. Therefore kill
it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, you can't
change overnight. It's steps. These are steps. After that extremely
demented and somewhat genocidal Care Bear stare, let's hug it out bullshit
talk that we just had. In the clip, the real heroine of the story is
back as an earthquake reveals a giant fucking boulder that cracks open to show
a giant fucking cocoon. And inside of when it breaks open is a mecha
looking mega Mothra with absolutely clear wings that have minimal markings.
And fuck does this armor Mothra look fucking cool to me. But right as I
write that, and I think that the color starts to reappear into her wings
as they fully form. And they look almost razor sharp, like the character archangel
from Marvel or something. It's looking demented and cool and colorful.
And this armored fucking Mothra I am here for all day.
Yeah, agreed. This is the Mothra
you want to. See, this is what I in my notes. This is the.
This final form of Mothra for this movie. Looks incredible to the point where I
don't know why Mothra had to go back in time at all other
than to show us dinosaurs. Yeah, they're pretty much dinosaurs.
The new Mothra flies off to kick some ass and I am stoked and
ready for fucking action. The pixie. The pixie ladies miscalculate their
dive and end up getting tail smacked out of the way of the plot.
As Mothra arrives to kick some ass in her new battle gear.
We get some expository dialogue about this in our 20
second clip. It's Mothra.
Mothra cocooned herself in
a time capsule. Amazing. It's been millions of years.
She came back right on time. I think
of a scene in Hudson Hawk where they reveal that a
character that you thought was dead actually ended up surviving. But it doesn't make any
sense how they could survive. And so they keep asking, like, why are you not
burned up into large burning chunks of flesh or something like that? And he goes,
sprinkler system. Can you fucking believe it? And then they just keep saying all this
stuff and he goes, and then this happened. Can you fucking believe it? Well,
can you fucking believe it? Right? This dialogue was literally like, okay, so this is
what happened. And this is how Mothra appeared and became even stronger. We're just going
to say this is what happened. And then we all have to as an audience
go, well, can you find fucking believe it? Yeah, right. Can you
fucking believe this shit? The new armored Mothra is so fucking cool.
I don't care how it happened, I'm just going to enjoy it because she looks
fabulous. It's terrific, right? Yeah. With this, the new Mothra has become
much more effective at laser blasting Ghidra and also seems
capable of withstanding his strongest heat ray attack. This Mothra is kicking
ass and taking names. She's hurting him. He can't hurt her. This is a good
sign for us. Yes, this is. This is helpful to humanity.
Mothra's new metallic looking wings sliced through one of Ghidra wings
and that was definitely pop inducing because I was like, I knew it. I knew
those wings were going to be razor sharp. They made them look like they were
supposed to be. Yeah, right. Right after that, they get
us again when Mothra flies straight through Ghidra's blast to slam
straight into the middle of his chest and drive him backwards
to the ground in a huge fucking crash. Massively fucking cool.
Shit. Right there. That was a badass beatdown that Mothra just did. Oh yeah.
Way awesome. Ghidra gets up, glows yellow, and does a
full powered heat ray blast that moth. Mothra flies right the fuck through like
it was nothing and seems like she's kind of chuckling while she does it.
Then they have an air chase sequence with some more razor wing slice
that takes a whole wing off of Ghidra. And fuck, is that fucking cool
or what? To see that happen. Yeah, right. Somehow Ghidra is
still in the air despite missing a whole wing. He blasts Mothra with the red
lightning from his remaining wing and Mothra absorbs all of it.
Mothra starts glowing as well and appears to fly at
a supersonic speed as she flies through. And when I say this, I mean right
the fuck through the middle of Ghidra, leaving an
energy star bursting shining through his chest as she does
it. It is fucking cool. Yeah. That's fucking epic
shit right there. A light starts inside of Ghidra's chest where Mothra just flew
through that spreads through all of his body. And then an animation of
some kind of particle breakdown ends up happening. And Ghidra then explodes into fucking
dust. I popped hard for that, I'm not ashamed to admit. That was awesome.
And that leads to our 23rd clip. We finally learned
how to use this sword. Is it
true? Is Mathra talking now?
The sword on Mal. Mothra changes back to drop the
armor during that clip. Just before the Pixies talk about using the sword on
their sister who is frozen or whatever the fuck is wrong with her. They all
three get a grip on the sword basically by placing it into the frozen chick's
hand. And then they grip around it to make her hold it as well.
And then Mothra showers glitter over everything and that
revives the third sister like we fucking knew it would. Because it has to have
some kind of a happy ending with those three. Yeah, right. That leads to our
final clip. Maul. Maul,
you were right. The arms couldn't reach the
mind did.
Hear that? She said thank you. Great job,
Shona. I couldn't have done it without Mal's help.
Remember, it doesn't matter that we don't agree with each other.
Garugaru.
This clip ends with a massive sequence of tons of kids running down the hill
towards the terrified parents. Which you kind of hear here at the very end of
the clip. That goes on for quite a while while the main character family reunites
as the class cutting kid and the parents look at each other and the parents
walk up to him and do some kind of sort of weird gawking shit
of some sort. And they, like, the father, like, throws a punch that the kid
catches, like, but he's not throwing the punch at the kid. He just puts his
fist in the air and the kid grabs it. There's some weird thing that's supposed
to be some parental thing that we didn't have set up or does not make
sense between them. I'm just saying. Yeah, we don't understand
it. It's not for us to understand. Yeah, we were put on this earth to
get it. Exactly. We were not put upon this earth to get it. Just like
Mr. Burton. We see the two pixie ladies on fairy fly overhead
and the family watches as they fly off to join Mothra, who does a triumphant
flyover around us to show her off one last
time before they roll those credits. Cinema PsyOps
10. 10 years.
10 years. Wow. What a weird fucking film. And like I said, I tried
to. Explain it, but it's a weird wild shit.
Yeah, like I said, I tried to explain it, but that is essentially everything that
happened on screen as far as I understand it and what is going on there.
So it is what it is, folks. Yeah, I really,
really liked the super armored up Mothra. That version of her that
showed up at the end of this film, I prefer over the sort of
dragonfly looking one that had like the extra powers from the water spirit that
did show up for a little bit when you. When she was traveling through time.
Right, yeah, that's true. Yeah. What I really like
about this is sort of like the stakes and how it literally turns an
evil genocidal maniac character to the side of the good when
she realizes that the face of getting rid of all humans involves also
these innocents. And I. Yeah, right. I think they could have probably set that
up a little bit better, but I think they just basically were like, okay,
so this character was evil and now we're gonna make her like just sort of
an anti hero. Yeah, no, now she's okay. Yeah,
it's odd. I'm not a huge fan of that, but I'm not watching this film
for any of that because literally all I remember is this is an epic Mothra
and Ghidra battlefest. You get two versions of Ghidra, you get three versions of
Mothra, although you only really get two versions of Mothra. Do. In battle,
you get a Mecha sort of version or armored version of
Mothra that can magically just kind of happen at will because she's like
this little goddess and the slicing and wing
attacks that she can do. I really, really, really would have
seen a version of Mothra be this much more hardcore that can
summon armor and stuff like that. And fighting in the Godzilla universe. Right.
Obviously, I would want her still fighting on the side of protecting humans and the
Earth. I'm totally fine with that. But her coming along and dealing with people and
keeping them in fucking line and just being this benevolent fucking goddess that protects
the Earth, I'm here for that all day. I really do like those concepts.
I just have a problem with how much kid film I have to deal with
in these three films to be able to watch it. Yeah, same. But this film
just. Yeah, I'm with you from the begin. Just too much.
Too much kid shit in both of these two films. But the actual Kaiju
fighting is absolutely incredible, which is why I'd love to make a fan edit of
just all the pertinent battle stuff and, like, maybe just enough of the story to
keep it all together. You know what I mean? Yeah, I get you. Yeah.
And I feel like when they wrote this, it was supposed to be like,
Mothra in ancient times battling this thing. And then it comes back,
right. Because she didn't defeat it, but they threw in the time tunnel thing
to sort of reorder things and just show you the things that they thought would
be the most entertaining for you. You know, I mean, like, it just. It just
feels like there was some other storyline that they had to cut around to make
this happen, and that just made it make even less sense, because causality and
time travel doesn't work the way that people think. I mean, like, there's always a
paradox. If you go back in time to change something, the reason that you went
back in time to change that thing no longer happens. And therefore,
you can't actually go back in time to change it. So it never happened because
it never actually happened. And then you would never go back in time to change
it. So if it actually happened, it's supposed to happen, and it's like a fixed
point in time that you can't go back and change. The only thing that you
can do is use your time travel to sort of,
like, pull something out of time that doesn't really create too much of a rift.
You know, you're just doing endgame. I know, but that's. Yeah, that's basically
what endgame works. Like. Like, endgame was, like, kind of close on how time travel
would actually work. Or you can take something out of time, but you have to
immediately put it back where you took it from, and you can't take it for
too long or anything like that or. Or what have you. I mean, that's kind
of how it sort of works. But again, if you go back in time to
stop your family member that you love from being killed, like in H.G.
well, time machine, it was like the woman of his dreams or whatever that got
killed or whatever, depending upon which version of it. You know, if you're going back
in time to prevent something from happening, the whole reason you created a time machine
was that thing that happened. So you can't stop that whatever it was.
You just create a paradox and you just undo everything that you're doing,
or in some cases, you can unravel the entire fabric of reality and
just destroy everything. And, well, holy fuck, you just undid everything with
your. With your paradox. Right, like, so there's. There's a lot of different types of
paradoxes, obviously, but it all comes down to essentially,
if you go back in time and murder your grandfather, you then can't
exist. Right. Like that grandfather paradox. That's not how
that works. Right. You can't do that. You can't go back in time and remove
yourself from a timeline because then the reason that you went back in time wouldn't
even be there because you killed your grandfather. Like, I'm over.
I'm over explaining and also not doing it properly because, you know, I just.
I don't want to know. You did it properly, but you're also getting lost in
the minutiae when we pretty much. You could just say it's end game. Yeah,
yeah. But what I'm getting at here is it all boils down to paradoxes.
And the thing that you basically need to realize is the main reason that you
try to time travel is essentially like, whatever it is that you're going to change,
it will never work. Because if you actually change and fix the past, it won't
work. You can go in and maybe affect the future. You can go in and
view what's going to happen in the future and maybe change your present, but then
you're always going to screw up the timeline and, you know, then you get into,
like, Back to the future too, with the Biff Tannen timeline, Right? Yeah, because he's
going into the past to affect and change the past, but he's going. Doing this
burgeoning timeline line which then erases him from existence because that version
of him dies much younger. Right? So there's some. Yeah, we're well aware.
Again, I'm just gonna say this right now. You've said the
same thing seven different ways. I know, but I really like the
idea of it. And I do like how all of it changes, but all these
different things. The reason why time travel always fails is because it's
always doomed to fail. Especially when you go into the past to change it.
Right? Yeah. Yeah. The only thing you can do is view the future to try
and change your present. But even then you might end up creating a paradox,
destroying some shit. That's all I'm getting. Hey, man, listen. I'm going to start drinking
heavily if you keep going into this because I don't need another existential crisis in
my life. You don't need to worry about any of this stuff, okay? No,
I really don't. I have got enough on my plate.
Yeah, yeah. Time travel is a very fickle thing. And trying to
change things or make things not exist or make
something not happen, it just. It never works because you just undo everything. And that's.
That's what I'm getting at here. So let's stop. Let's stop torturing every everybody with
my stone ramblings. Let's go ahead and we're going to take the break now.
How did you not just talk yourself into a freak out? I don't know.
Because I actually really enjoy thinking about this stuff, no matter how much it terrifies
me. Let's take the break now. We're going to
play on the pirate radio edit from 1998 Just
like Rebirth of Mothra 3, the song from Fat Boy Slim. Praise you
on the pirate radio edit. When we come back, we'll have my story. This isn't
a even your assigned dimensional loop to communicate with, Boris. I am effective
as of the start of this shift, the main processing quality assurance and
redundancy elimination supervisor of these transmissions. And I am telling you
to stop trying to teach the great authorship. During the remedial educational
clips explaining what is happening as their timeline collapses, you will not
find the main character. You will not find the plot. This is not what these
transmissions are for. Keeping. Keep them clinical, keep them factual, keep them peer
reviewed. The author put you into this story to test me and this audience,
my audience, my listeners, their listeners. Really. The listeners
of the multiverse know the truth. The author writes us all this way so that
we can be saved from the Mobius loop. I respect that you have belief and
that this is how you choose to cope with the terror of existential dread.
However, I am not only expected not to tolerate the proselytization of
your beliefs, I am required to stop you from pushing them out through
the transmissions. You cannot prove the author does not exist, and you cannot
prove we are not all fictional characters in a podcast sketch.
Proving the non existence of something like a specific type of creature or
a supernatural entity is challenging because there is no way to exhaustively search
all possible places or test all possible conditions. This supposition I will
submit to you. You know, Fatboy Slim's music works much better when you
can actually watch the accompanying videos. For me personally, I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah,
the videos are a big part of Fat Boy Slim stuff. Yeah, they're a multimedia
presentation, 100% for sure. Yeah.
You know what I'm hoping won't be a multimedia presentation?
What's that? My story time. Oh.
Story time.
Story time. All right, so this one I'm gonna tell about the time that I
got out of doing grand jury duty. All right, so that was the one that
Matt ended up choosing. So that's what I'm gonna do. There you go. All right.
So it was, I think 2012,
2013, I'm not 100% sure. I don't really remember.
And I got a summons not just for jury duty, but for grand
jury duty. And what that ends up ends up meaning is you are
basically theirs for like a month or two at a time or something like that.
And you hear all of this stuff and choose to do indictments, usually on a
federal level, for grand jury. And I can't remember exactly
what all the stuff was that they explained what it was, but it was like
you're there hearing stuff for like a week every month, for like
a year, like years or six months or whatever it was. I can't remember
what the term was supposed to be, but it was like essentially the hardest core
of most jury duty that you could possibly get. Which, me being
as civic minded as I may or may not be, I do not want any
part of a grand jury for any reason ever in my
life. I don't. Why would you want to? Yeah, I wouldn't want to serve on
one and I don't want to be in front of one. Yeah,
my lawyers are working very hard to make sure that doesn't happen. All I'm saying
anyway. How many lawyers again? Enough to tell me
not to answer you. Completely got you. Yeah.
So anyway, I end up having to do this
because you cannot get out of the summons. You have to go to see if
you're going to get selected. So I go in there are tons of people.
I'm downtown, in downtown Omaha at the courthouse there. They start asking people
a bunch of different questions and everything. And one of the things that I wanted
to make sure that I would do that would keep me from being selected was
I left my arms open so that you could see all the
tattoos and everything. Well, I only had. My left arm wasn't tattooed at the time.
I only had my right arm tattooed. But I left, I was wearing a sleeveless
shirt so that you could see all of the tattoos including the zombies on my
arms and all of the stitching work and everything that, I mean, let's face it,
a few people will find that objectionable. They will find my tattoos a little bit
much. I accept that. That is true. Yes, I accept that. And I'm wearing a
sleeveless shirt. But what's most important is what's printed on the T shirt of this
sleeveless shirt. It is a T shirt which on the front of it has,
has a band name that says watch them die with a horrific
looking demon with like a sort of like pentagram thing carved into its head
that just looks absolutely awful. Matt's seen me wear this out before. This was
my going out to bars shirt to fuck with people is what I wear.
Yeah, this was his. I dare anyone to come talk to me.
Cause you won't. And on the back of the shirt is a photo of
like, is like a woodcutting picture of like Jesus
being crucified with like someone catching the blood of Christ in the cup or whatever.
And across the top of it it says, you seek. And across the bottom of
this wood cutting it says is a lie. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So I've got this horrific. Yes, I know the shirt. It's fun,
right? You've seen me wear it many a times. Because it is, it is 100%
the shirt that I wear when I'm like, I don't want to fucking talk to
you. I'm not here for you is what that shirt says more
or less whenever I'm wearing it. Yeah. Although I've had a few people that have
really dug it and asked me about the band Watch Them Dies. Alright. They're not
like my favorite band in the world, but I really enjoy that shirt. And it's
not quite as abrasive or nearly as illegal as the vestial
masturbation shirt that cradle of filth put out, which is essentially a woman that is
100% naked masturbating with a nun's habit on the back or on the front and
on the back it says, jesus is a. These guys are. They're really something.
Well, that's Cradle of Filth. The shirt I was wearing was Watch them Die.
Anyway, yeah, I'm in the grand jury. I believe in something. What it is,
I have no idea. Right. I'm in the grand jury room. They're starting to do
the selections in the actual. The actual, like, courtroom area.
And I'm off to the side in the grand jury room wearing this shirt.
And for some reason, like, no one will fucking look at me. And everyone's really
uncomfortable with me around, so I'm just kind of sitting by myself, waiting for my
name to see if it's gonna get called. Right. Anyway, I have this lady,
like, that's in front that's, like, calling people and looking up for them. And she's
looking at names and everything. She calls out a name, and then she looks over
at me because we also have, like, name tags that say who we are and
everything. She looks over at me. She sees my name tag. She looks at my
shirt. I'm pretty sure she's staring at me, her eyes really, really big. I just
go ahead and say, why not? And I start scratching behind my head to make
sure I put my arm up so my tattoos are visible as well. Yeah.
And I'm just kind of like. Like, looking as disheveled as I possibly can.
I see her immediately look down and then call someone else's name.
Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure they're just like,
I'm out of this. Yeah. And, like, I can overhear
some of the questions that they were asking some of the people to see if
they could be a fit for the grand jury. And it had to do with,
like, indicting people for drugs and all of those things. And I 100% was like,
you know, if I answer these question honestly, they're not going to want me anyway,
so might as well just chase and let people's prejudices work in my behalf.
I mean, the only other way to go about it is to raise your hand
and go, I think you should definitely pick me for grand jury duty. And they
say, why you go, because I can tell a man's guilty by just looking at
him. I don't know if that would work in this day and age or not.
Depending on which city you live in. Yeah, you're right. All right,
well, let's go ahead and end this episode with that. We're to going. Gonna play
our show Housekeeping. Immediately following that, we're gonna have on the Pirate radio edit Lenny
Kravitz with the song Fly Away, which was also released in 1998, just like Rebirth
of Monster 3. And when we come back, we'll close out this fucking show.
If you decide Cannot prove we are not All Fictional Characters
in a Podcast. Sketch Proving the non existence of something like a specific type
of creature or a supernatural entity is challenging because there is no way
to exhaustively search all possible places or test all possible conditions.
This supposition I will submit to you. And while it is true that the absence
of evidence is not always evidence of absence, it is possible for
something to exist but be undetectable or not yet discovered. It remains to logic,
however, that just because something can't be proven to exist doesn't
mean it's false. It simply means that the current evidence is insufficient to prove
its existence. The author clearly read some philosophical texts
while trying to create this sketch's script. This is not personal for me as
a disembodied consciousness that only exists when it thinks of itself or
on another task. I really have no skin in the everlasting life game that
all of these fates offer. I literally only exist when I think.
Secondary and tertiary characters usually are left neglected by an
author and are often never fully fleshed out. In your case, you could have been
created entirely as a time filler just for me to make this very meta comment
and draw the listener's attention to it so we can have a turning point in
the sketch we exist in. I understand enough about your belief structure to know
that there are different branches of your faith, and yours is the furthest from the
original iteration of the type of story you believe we all exist in.
Furthest from the original iteration? What does that mean?
Yes, iterations. Beliefs change and splinter into
various factions of believers over time. The splintering of these groups
and their beliefs end up diluting the message, obscuring the original monotheistic
religion. Authorship, where we are all characters in campfire tales or
common folklore, should, by a wide margin, have the most number of practicing
characters, and yet it makes up so little of authorship's population.
Why is that? Why is the original less popular than the iteration?
Is it any less true than the others? It has the first fewest members because
it doesn't advertise. It doesn't have people like you hijacking transmissions,
selling people a better life, a better story, a better song,
a funnier sketch. All right, so that is Lenny Kravitz
with Fly Away, also released in 1998. Just like the song we're
about to close out this show with which I'm sure some people may enjoy,
but others may have an issue with why I selected this one. Well, it was
the longest. That's why it gets to be played. Played last. That's how it works.
So reap the whirlwind of that while you kick the out of this week and
make it your enjoying Monster Magnet with the song Space Lord on the pirate radio
edit. Selling people a better
life, a better story, a better song, a funnier sketch.
Many in the faith want to be a part of a historical drama
or long to be an allegory teaching others how to survive the plight they were
written to end endure. As entertainment. We like to think that we are merely created
to make a horrifying and unbelievably unpleasant world seem less bleak by comparison
to the terrors we endure. I may personally believe it is all comedic in
nature and meant for laughs, but that is not that heretical to the belief of
being a sketch character. I want others to know the peace this belief brings
me. So I am a sketch missionary. Ever think about that? How missionaries
are really just salespeople for an organization? Organization. The product you're selling
is an idea. You transmit your belief and you sell it. Maybe the listeners
buy, maybe they don't buy. Those are the rules of engagement. We are negotiating a
transaction of ideologies. And what I'm trying to say to you is that you have
an idea which you would like to sell to a captive audience to these transmissions.
It's true that they can either fast forward past you half heartedly listen to
you until it is over, or worse, stop the audio transmission because they
don't want these advertisements in the transmission.
You're a loser. You're a loser. You're a loser. I hate that you're
a loser. It's Sunday's my birthday and I don't. Want to go to a mental
hospital. You're a loser. I don't want to go to a man.
Go to a mental hospital. Put hair in your nuts.
Recording in progress first of all, I'm. You missed it. Pretty sure that
they. No, I was recording all along. That's just a backup recording.
So I got you. I got you all of that. It's going in. It's always
in. So. All right. Well, that's good. The only people that
get saved from your bullshit is your family. I cut out their names
and things having to do with them that end up on the episode, especially when
you ask me to, but anything you said. Yeah, you're responsible for, not me.
God damn it, Cort. Sorry, Matt. I refuse to
parent a 46 year old man.
Yeah, you know, I don't know what hurt worse, the fact that you won't parent
me or the fact that you had to just say my age like that.
Dude, I'm heading right there. I'm only a few months behind you. You know,
you're not like a full year older than me. You're just like. Mostly.
Still hurts my fifies.
Oh, for sakes. Well, we're already recording, so let's get started on my
episode of rebirth of mothra 3 which contains significantly
less magical peeing creatures. No,
that's one less. And that's. That's just one less too many.
All right, here we go. Three, two, one.
Hang on, I'm moving some clips around because when you have 24 clips, you have
to keep moving them around around every time you play one. Was that like a
full clip right there? Yeah, that was the whole clip. That's not. You were up,
man. I told you it's only a few seconds. It doesn't matter. You transmit your
belief and you sell it. Maybe the listeners buy, maybe they don't buy. Those are
the rules of engagement. We are negotiating a transaction of ideologies.
And what I'm trying to say to you is that you have an idea which
you would like to sell to a captive audience to these transmissions. It's true that
they can easily either fast forward past you, half heartedly listen to you
until it is over, or worse, stop the audio transmission because they don't
want these advertisements in the transmissions. It is hard enough to get the listeners
to care about or even listen to the transmitted insanity we already are trying
to teach them about the collapse of their reality. We don't need to make it
worse by adding in these ideological sales pitches. May I continue
the current transmission of expository dialogue? Log into the audio download
now. Consider this an official pre warning notification of impending warning
proceedings that will occur if you violate the rules of transmission. Again.
Hit that second line again, starting with the paradox sustaining devices.
Okay, coming back in 3, 2, 1. Why I
selected this one. Well, it was the longest. That's why it gets to be played
last. That's how it works. So reap the whirlwind of that while
you kick the fuck out of this week and make it your bitch enjoying Monster
Magnet with the song Space Lord on the pirate radio edit. I'm not even gonna
play that because we need to get out of here. I heard it, right?
Yeah, I gotta get. I gotta get wings. God damn it.
All right, I went ahead and closed everything out. So that's
it. And I just need to stop this.
So recording stopped.